Monday, 1 September 2014

Joyce Manor - Victoria

It's a grey Monday morning in Northern England and I'm shortly due to set off on a 35 mile drive to work so I think an upbeat, bouncy song is the order of the day to help disperse the clouds. Probably no introduction is required to Joyce Manor but briefly, they formed in 2008, hail from Torrance, California and they took their name from an apartment building which was located near the house of lead vocalist/guitarist Barry Johnson. They seem to preach that Brevity is next to Godliness as their 3 albums are all brief affairs, short on running time but certainly not short on ideas or tunes to die for. The latest of these albums, released in July of this year on Epitaph Records, is called Never Hungover Again and from it comes this little ray of sunshine, this is Victoria.....

Had such a bad time hanging outregret the choices that I madeI know it doesn't matter nowwon't be the one who walks away

Victoriayou've got me hanging on againVictoria

Had such a hard time saying nolocked myself out and had to climbover the back wall and scraped my armit bled a little, but I'm fine

Victoriayou've got me hanging on againVictoria

Took the screen door off the framewashed the blood off of my armand watched it circle down the drainput the screen down back in placenow I'm alone again